On December 8, 2010 the Loss Prevention Officer from The Home Depot store located at 1490 Capital Circle Northwest contacted the United States Secret Service about an employee who had been observed stealing credit card information from customers. Special Agents from the United States Secret Service then contacted the Leon County Sheriff’s Office and the…
Category: Skimmers
Update: Chicken Express owners release statement
KYTX provides an update to their coverage of a Chicken Express breach affecting hundreds of people in Tyler, Texas and other areas. The breach involved an employee skimming cards at a Tyler franchise. Here is the statement by the owners: In the summer of 2010, the Tyler police made us aware of a situation involving…
TX: Employee swiped credit card numbers at Chicken Express
KYTX reports: Cops take down a major identity theft operation with ties to Tyler. It’s one of several cases affecting East Texans right now. An employee at a Tyler Chicken Express is accused of bringing a special card-reader to work. Police say she took customers’ debit cards at the drive-thru window, swiped them once at the cash…
(follow-up) Romanian national pleads guilty to conspiracy in skimming
A Romanian national pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring with another Romanian national to skim customer account information from PNC Bank ATM machines in Western Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced in a press release last week. Alexandru Razvan Serb, 39 pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2010, to one…
(Update) ALDI breach affected 17,000 New York residents
Back in October, I noted that the ALDI breach had affected 8,000 Maryland residents. New York State’s breach logs for October, posted online, indicates that ALDI had reported on October 1 that 17,000 NYS residents were affected. Given that the breach affected customers in 11 states and there are 25,000 affected in just two of…
WA: Two charged in BECU ID theft thought to impact 100s
Levi Pulkkinen reports: Prosecutors have filed charges against two men believed to have defrauded hundreds of BECU [Boeing Employees Credit Union] members by “skimming” debit cards at Seattle-area ATMs. Having filed IDd theft-related charges against the men, King County prosecutors contend Seattle resident Claudiu Flaviu Tudor and Mihai Podaru stole the account information of hundreds…